The Dartmouth Difference

One Community. No departments.

"To prepare the most capable and faithful for the most responsible positions and the most difficult service." —Sylvanus Thayer

At Dartmouth's engineering school, you won’t find departments, and you won’t be limited to a single area of engineering. You'll be free to follow wherever your discoveries may lead. Creativity, collaboration, and innovation thrive when biomedical engineers work side-by-side with electrical engineers, and materials scientists with computer engineers, and engineering majors rub elbows with Ph.D. students.

As an undergraduate, you'll explore the full range of liberal arts courses, master broad principles you can apply to all areas of engineering, and solve real-world problems as you gain expertise in your chosen focus area.

Where everybody knows your name.

Dartmouth has the smallest and most personal engineering school in the Ivy League. All doors are open here—to project labs, to faculty, to the entire Dartmouth campus, and beyond. Professors here are as devoted to teaching as they are to conducting world-class research. In fact, all classes are taught by professors, not graduate students.

"I remember he had pages taped to the wall with the faces and names of each student in his class. He made sure to learn who each student was in the eighty-person class so that no student was a stranger." —Christina Behrend, student of Professor John Collier

Not only that, but research clearly shows that "green" is good for the brain:

"Numerous recent studies have focused on the positive effects that exposure to trees and nature has on our mental health." —Scientific American

"Researchers have found that looking at natural landscapes makes people more forward-thinking in their decision-making." —Discover Magazine

"There is growing evidence that combining activities such as walking or cycling with nature boosts well-being. ... UK researchers looked at evidence from 1,250 people in 10 studies and found fast improvements in mood and self-esteem. The study in the Environmental Science and Technology journal suggested the strongest impact was on young people. ... A bigger effect was seen with exercise in an area that also contained water—such as a lake or river." —BBC News